The U.S. should have dropped the atomic bomb because it was strategic and it saved lives. Ultimately ending the war. Both sides used mass strategic bombings creating multiple deaths similar to the deaths of the atomic bombs. Also the atomic bombs ended the war and if hadn't dropped those bombs the U.S. casualties would be estimated at double the casualties of the atomic bombs. So the bomb should have been dropped because it saved lives and ended the war.

Not many were innocent the Japanese military was training the woman in boxing, bamboo spears and katanas, the Old men and children were trained to strap bmbs to themselves then jump in front of advancing American tanks